The Inquisitive Christian
Questioning everything since 1984
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I’m a 41-year-old nurse and firefighter/EMT who loves theology and exploring religion.
Category: 2 Nephi
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We’re in for some nasty weather here. Dark, ominous clouds are gathering on the horizon. The wind is picking up, rustling the leaves of nearby trees and stirring up the dust from our normally dry climate. So here I am, safely inside on my couch in front of my computer, with my cat contentedly purring…
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Throughout my research during this project, I have often wondered why Joseph Smith fixated on various things. Thus far, we have seen the plagiarism of entire chapters of Isaiah. Theologically speaking, Isaiah is one of the most impactful and significant books of the Old Testament. It contains various Messianic prophecies, which is why it’s so…
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I overdid it today, friends. I had surgery on my right heel less than 3 weeks ago, and I thought it would be a brilliant idea this morning to don my walking boot and, instead of using the crutches my surgeon advised me to use, put full weight on it while I hobbled around my…
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Ladies and gents, I stand accused of being biased in my research and not taking the Book of Mormon seriously. These accusations, of course, were made by an unhappy Mormon who read a couple of my entries. Namely, he was upset by my support for the Deutero-Isaiah theory in “A Chronological Impossibility.” He insisted that…
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Based upon the chapter I’m reviewing, Joseph Smith had plenty of racism. He also had animals and metals that didn’t exist in the Americas when these events were purported to have taken place, plus a big temple like Solomon’s even though Nephi had nowhere near enough people to build such a thing. I have decided…
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This morning, I had one Mormon tell me, online, that he could see the hate in my eyes and another one, who refused to read this blog, label it as “the words of Satan.” I found those criticisms quite funny, because they simply demonstrated what way too many LDS followers are conditioned to do from…
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I would highly recommend reading my previous post, “The Devil is in the Details” before proceeding with this one. The concepts of hell and the devil are also used anachronistically in this chapter, and I delved into those issues at length previously. I see no need to repeat myself, especially when there are new issues…
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One interesting thing about working on this blog is that I catch things later on that I missed earlier. Hell and the devil are mentioned in previous chapters of the Book of Mormon, but it wasn’t until this book and chapter that I realized there are issues with these words and concepts in this context.…
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